Method of producing lace tucks on fabrics



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METHOD OF PRODUGING LACE TUGKS 0N PABRIGS.

No. 417,456. Patented Dec. 17, 1889.

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METHOD OF PRODUOING LACE TUGKS ON FABRICS. No. 417,456. Patented Dec. 17, 1889.

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JEAN \VIGET, 0F NEXV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO 'LOEB & SCHOENFELD, ()F

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- METHOD oF PRODUCING LACE TUCKS QN FABlRlCS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,456, dated December 1'7, 1889. Application filed April 19, 1889. Serial 110307.739. 1 (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEAN WIGET, a citizen of Switzerland, at present residin gin the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Method of Producing Needle-Lace Tucks or Embroiderieson Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improved method of producing needle-lace tucks or embroiderieson fabrics used more particularly for ladies wear, and has for its object to cheaply and nicely produce tucks or embroideries of this character and of any desired pattern or size on muslins or like vegetable-fiber fabrics not affected by a chemical solution which will cut away or remove animal-fiber fabrics on which embroidery patterns are worked prior to joining the two fabrics together.

The invention will first be described, and then will be particularly pointed out in the claims. I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a face view of a piece of fabric or material of animal nature, such as woolen -or silk goods, which maybe decomposed or cut away by the action of a chemical solution, and with embroidery produced thereon by cotton or other threads which will withstand the action of the chemical solution and which will form the tucks or embroideries on the finished fabric. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view thereof, taken on the line 00 00 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a face view of the aforesaid embroidered fabric as it appears when stitched or joined by embroidery to a piece of cotton or other fabric not affected by the chemical solution and which forms the main part of the finished fabric. Fig. at is avertical section of the two fabrics, taken on the line y y in Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the finished fabric, showing the decomposable face material removed and the tucks hanging free from one edge.

The fabric A (shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the drawings) is made or woven from wool,

silk, or any animal or other substance which will be decomposed or cut away by the action of chloride or caustic soda or any other proper "chemical solution. 011 this fabric A is first produced embroidery B by using cotton or other threads unaffected by the chemical solut-ion. These embroidery patternsB may have any desired size or pattern, accordingly as the finished tucks or embroideries which they form are to be straight, wavy, scalloped, angular, or round, and as the style of the gar- 6o ment or drapery of which they form a part may suggest or require. The nextstep in the process is to connect this embroidered fabric A B to the. face of the main fabric 0, made of cotton or other material not affected by the .chemical solution, and preferably by lines of stitches D, which are preferably embroidery-stitches, which form their own complete selvage and cannot rip. These connecting-lines of stitches or embroidery D are also made by cotton or other threads which will not be destroyed by the chemical solution. The two fabrics A 0, connected by the embroidery D, may now be treated to a bath by immersion in chloride or caustic soda or otherproper chemicalsolution, this being the most practical and desirable mode of apply-. ing the solution to the fabric A, which the" solution will cut away or destroy, thus leaving the line embroidery B hanging as free needle-lace tucks B from the fabric 0 at the lines of stitches or embroidery D, which had previously connected the two fabrics, the fabricO now constituting the main portion or ground of the complete tucked piece, and as shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings. The two fabrics A C may, however, be connected together at places afterward, forming both edges of the finished guipure or needle lace embroidery, which then would be fastened to the main fabrics at both edges, as will readily be understood.

-When other embroidered patterns are to appear on the finished tucked fabric 0, they may be worked into it by cotton or other 5 threads not aifected by the chemical solution and at places clear of the tucks, and before thetwo fabrics A O are joined by the stitches or embroidery D, and this method will be adopted when the tucks B are to be consid- 10o erable distances apart. In this case the tuckembroidery B will be produced on a strip of material A only about as wide as the finished tuck, and this narrow embroidered strip will be connected at the top or edge by stitches or embroideryD with the main fabric C prior to placing the fabrics in the acid or chemical solution. Vhen these other embroidered patterns E desired on the finished fabric are quite close together, or are to appear within curved, round, or angular loose needle-lace tucks on the finished fabric, I prefer to work said patterns E directly through the two fabrics A O at the same time that the tuck-connecting lines D of embroidery are produced, the fabric A in this case extending for the full width or space between the upper and lower lines of the embroidery and as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. After application of the chemical solution, by a bath or otherwise, to these two embroidered fabrics the embroidery-patterns E will remain on the fabric 0 adjacent to the connectinglines D of embroidery and between or within the contour of the free needle-lace tucks, and as will be understood from Fig. 5 of the drawings.

WVhere there is to be a single needle-lace tuck or a few such tucks quite widely separated, it is obvious that, however the fabric C may be embroidered, it is more economical to use narrow strips of material A with the tuck-patterns B worked on them and connect them to the main fabric C; but when a series of needle-lace tucks are to be produced quite close together on the main fabric 0 it is manifestly cheaper to use one piece of material A wide enough to receive the embroidered patterns which form all the tucks, as time will be saved in handling the goods; hence the latter method of producing a series of adjacent needle-lace tucks is preferred in practice.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described method of producing needle-lace tucks or embroideries on fabrics, which consists in first embroidering by threads indestructible by a chemical solution and upon a material which will be decomposed by such solution the patterns which are to form said tucks or embroideries on the finished fabric, then connecting this embroidered fabric to another fabric not affected by said chemical solution and by means indestructible by said solution and on lines at which the finished needle-lace tucks or embroideries are to be fastened to the fabric not affected by the solution, and then applying the chemical solution to the two joined fabrics to remove the first embroidered decomposable fabric an d allow the finished needle-lace tucks or embroideries to hang or project from the face of the other fabric not affected by the chemical solution, substantially as herein set forth.

2. The herein-described method of producing needle-lace tucks or embroideries on fabrics, which consists in first embroidering by threads indestructible bya chemical solution and upon a material which will be decomposed by said solution the patterns which are to form the tucks or embroideries on the finished fabric, then connecting this embroidered fabric to another fabric not affected by said chemical solution by embroidery-stitches produced by threads not affected by the chemical solution and forming their own complete sclvage on lines from which the finished tucks or embroideries will hang or project, and then applying the chemical solution to the two joined fabrics to remove the first embroidered decomposable fabric and allow the finished needle-lace tucks or embroideries to hang or project from the face of the other fabric not affected by the chemical solution, substantially as herein set forth.

JEAN VIGE'J.

Witnesses:

HENRY L. GOODWIN, C. SEDGwIoK. 

